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IMO not Hoglund. Ofcourse I could have missed it, but I have 3-400 pieces from hoglund, several productions catalogues, i have worked at Boda, and see Hoglund pieces daily, this is a piece that I have never seen unfortunately.

IMO not Hoglund. Ofcourse I could have missed it, but I have 3-400 pieces from hoglund, several productions catalogues, i have worked at Boda, and see Hoglund pieces daily, this is a piece that I have never seen unfortunately.

So nobody better placed to write the book than you! When can we look forward to it?

Just think of the feeling of joy and accomplishment you will feel when you finally find the glasses in about 18 years. :thup:

Personally, on a side note... I have never understood a seller that would split up a "matching" (their word) set. They manage to stay together and complete for 50 years, and then someone decides to send them on their separate ways. :huh: :spls: :huh:

My guess is that with the pieces together it would have brought more than the sum of the parts.....

IMO not Hoglund. Ofcourse I could have missed it, but I have 3-400 pieces from hoglund, several productions catalogues, i have worked at Boda, and see Hoglund pieces daily, this is a piece that I have never seen unfortunately.

Curious that my Californian friend has very similar signed examples - but then I suppose a lot of companies were producing terribly similar forms. So it seems attribution is back in the air, although a lot of the decanter's quirks do seem to indicate a Höglund or at least 'inpsired by-' design.

That said, my collection of Lütken glass has, over the years, extended to probably more than 1,000 pieces and still I'm constantly surprised by obscure or overlooked designs that emerge on the secondary market!

Craig - I used to be the same, loathing to break sets up, but recently I've found that some sets are impossible to sell together and have taken to breaking them up into individual glasses. The only line I draw is if they come in their original box - then come hell or high water, they get marketed as a complete set.

Not so many - not the rustic type in high quality which was pioneered by Höglund. Maastricht, Leerdam, Lynngaard and Holmegaard jump to mind - but it is obviously none of those. I don't really know how you can say no to an attribution unless you have a positive alternative....

RE: the stopper. It is actually the same colour as the glass used in the decanter. If I peer through the top of the decanter the base, where the glass is lightest, it is an exact match for the stopper in colour - it appears more yellow in my images because they're lit from behind with very strong lighting.

The decanter is cased in a pale amber over the top of the darker bubbled glass, and the stopper seems to be made up entirely of this outer colour (or, most likely, has a clear glass core). The colours and overall gradiated effect are present in some of the items in your second grouping.